Sermons

In rain and snow, with shackles on his hands, St. Patrick learned to pray. He was captured by Irish pirates. He was torn from family,...

Limbs stiff, heart broken, she stood and looked at the cross. Who knows pain as tender and poignant as a mother? Who knows suffering as a...

“Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” ~ Ps. 51:7 He carried the bruised and beaten man...

C. S. Lewis was an atheist when he climbed aboard the train. The whistles blew, the train pulled forward, and the young scholar lit into...

The devil was exasperated. As the story goes, St. Macarius was fasting in the desert, when the devil met him. The spirit complained,...

Life was good and prosperous and then everything fell apart. The Roman army swarmed into Jerusalem with spears and torches. The temple,...

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves” (Matthew 7:17). In June 2008, the...

“There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?” (John 6:8-9). After the...

“Do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil” (Ephesians 4:17). Bishop Anthony Bloom was an old man when he...

Words from Matta El Meskeen Practicing Presence with God “Very few people spend any time practicing being with God. Fewer still enjoy...